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  AS JW.ORG TRAFFIC GOES UP, DOOR-TO-DOOR TRAFFIC WILL GO DOWN

  by steve2 in

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  here's a hypothesis that we can expect to see robustly tested over the next 2 (2016) to 5 years (2019):.

  as jw.org traffic goes up, door-to-door work will go down.

  it will be harder to maintain a focus on the motivation and effort required to go "out" into your local territory because the "shift" has started to occur.

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  “Quendi”: “For lands where the Internet is not ubiquitous, the old door-to-door canvassing will remain the norm.”

  Maybe so, at least for the time being, but that “old door-to-door canvassing” will now be consisting of playing the Society’s videos on tablets just like they carried around phonograph record players and played fiery sermons by Franklin Rutherford in the old colporteur days. They’ve come full circle, and now the remaining door-to-door canvassers in third world countries are back to just letting the pre-recorded idiots speak for them – that is, the idiots in the videos on the tablets. (Except now you don’t have to wind them up like the old phonographs. Just charge ’em up in the car on the way.)
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  “This is an organization that has an apocalyptic end-of-days strategic vision that will eventually have to be defeated."

  by kneehighmiah in

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  this is an organization that has an apocalyptic end-of-days strategic vision that will eventually have to be defeated, general martin e. dempsey, u.s. chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said on thursday.. .

  he sounds like he's talking about jws.

  but he's actually referring to isis.

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  “yadda yadda 2”: “Human beings really are quite stupid.”

  That’s for sure! It’s like the saying goes, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” People get sucked into joining the bandwagon of hatred and genocide in which they act far worse than any neighborhood dog. That’s right. From my observations, any dogs in the park I have ever seen act far more courteous and civilized than people drugged out on religious politics.
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  Hello, semi long intro!

  by Moses Joe in

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  i was raised as a jehovahs witness.

  currently i still am part of a congregation, which i gather is also the case for many who come here.

  i no longer consider them god's chosen people.

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  “Moses Joe”: “When this was accomplished I started doing my own study of the Bible . . . and I found that yes, . . .the earth will abide forever,all creation reconciled to perfection, . . .”

  First of all, welcome to this site! I can tell that you have a good analytical mind. You should fit in here quite well. You have obviously been able to cut through the BS of man’s contrived and imposed Biblical interpretation.

  Your post was quite well put together and logical. I have often thought about those two terms, “forever” and “perfection,” in a purely scientific context.

  I don’t think that there is anything that can remain as such “forever” due to the dynamic nature of the universe, from radioactive decay to the cosmological constant of space-time expansion to the stellar cycles involving stars. Thus, in terms of the earth, I don’t think that it will exactly remain in the same shape after our sun becomes a red giant and actually swallows it up. (Not that’s some pretty serious global warming!)

  Also, I have always wondered about the idea of “perfection” and how that could be scientifically possible. I have always wondered about billions of people – biological creatures – living day to day for supposedly billions of years without making any “mistake” as such, without snapping at someone in anger or falling and breaking a bone, etc. Looking at it from a purely mathematical, statistical, physiological, anthropological angle, I just could never get my head around the WT’s idea of living for an eternity in absolute perfection. Even since I was a kid, I always thought that in the end there at least had to be some kind of significant twist to all of that. (Like some psychological thriller with a surprising and perplexing ending.)

  I definitely don’t mean to nitpick at all or in any way detract from your post, which I certainly enjoyed. On the contrary, I just love to entertain such philosophical ideas in a scientific manner, and I can tell that you do as well. You’re on the right track. Keep questioning the status quo of any form of religiosity, and seek an objective perspective which allows one to view the entire forest as a whole from outside the constraining box of those who just want to follow instead of think.

  Take care. Looking forward to your input.
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  Is this the new "Witness to all of the Inhabited Earth"?

  by tenyearsafter in

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  i just saw an email from a family member trumpeting how they met an individual and referred them to jw.org...they then followed up the next day with the individual, stressing to the "interested one" how they could read publications and have questions answered via jw.org.

  my family member then went on to write, "i just had my first rv with mr. "x".

  i guess this is the new reality of witnessing in the 21st century....

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  Guess the folks whose service territory includes crossing those crocodile-infested, piranha-infested rivers in Africa and the Amazon jungle will be saying “Yay!” Just making a few clicks with the mouse sure beats having to make those nasty trips in the heart of mother nature.
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  Hey you guys...is someone at Bethel having a laugh?

  by wizzstick in

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  has anyone else noticed the below?.

  the mountain on the front cover of 'god kingdom rules' segues beautifully into the mountain on the front cover of 'crisis of conscience' (with a bit of cropping):.

  coincidence?.

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  Hmm. Must be them deeemunz.
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  AS JW.ORG TRAFFIC GOES UP, DOOR-TO-DOOR TRAFFIC WILL GO DOWN

  by steve2 in

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  here's a hypothesis that we can expect to see robustly tested over the next 2 (2016) to 5 years (2019):.

  as jw.org traffic goes up, door-to-door work will go down.

  it will be harder to maintain a focus on the motivation and effort required to go "out" into your local territory because the "shift" has started to occur.

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  “neverendingjourney”: “I keep looking for signs that suggest the WT will go all-in on the real estate business. Encourage their members to donate their labor to construct buildings, use the buildings for a while, sell them for profit . . . , build new buildings, rinse and repeat.”

  Instead of Quakers, you could more like call them “flippers” – flip that building, flip that factory, flip that doctrine, . . . .
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  “This is an organization that has an apocalyptic end-of-days strategic vision that will eventually have to be defeated."

  by kneehighmiah in

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  this is an organization that has an apocalyptic end-of-days strategic vision that will eventually have to be defeated, general martin e. dempsey, u.s. chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said on thursday.. .

  he sounds like he's talking about jws.

  but he's actually referring to isis.

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  JWs, like Warren Jeffs’ fundamentalist Mormon sect, the Scientologists, David Koresh’s Branch Dividians, Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple, Marshall Applewhite’s Heaven’s Gate, . . . ISIS, . . . are all fanatical and extremist, to be quite sure. It’s really just a matter of degree.
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  What Would You Answer A JW If They Asked You If You Would Ever Come Back ?

  by minimus in

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  “Balaamsass2”: “And use it to tell a little TTAT.”

  Absolutely! I mean, they asked for it, right? I say, Let ’em have it – from both barrels!
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  JW.ORG logo at Kingdom Hall

  by Gorbatchov in

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  yesterday i drove to mcdonalds and noticed that the nearby kingdom hall had the new blue jw.org logo.. the rebranding has started here in holland.. g.. .

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  Maybe next they will come out with a JW.org brand of that “miracle wheat” that Charles Taze Russell came up with.
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  What Would You Answer A JW If They Asked You If You Would Ever Come Back ?

  by minimus in

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  Although I’m still physically stuck in it right now, as soon as I completely finish my fade (when I’m financially able to make a run for it out on my own), then, at that time, whenever or if ever I get asked about why I left the WT and when I might return, I will let them have it! (Nicely, of course.) I will give them a basic synopsis of what I have discovered to be the real truth about the “truth” regarding the WT organization and its inconsistencies and man-made falsehoods. I won’t yell or be abusive to anyone, but I also won’t spare any punches in providing them with some choice and poignant information either. Yes, sir, I will tell them exactly why I will never return to that disingenuous religio-corporate organizational outfit.

  Believe me, I cherish that day!